Stupid Apple products

[jeriendhal]

Would somebody please tell me why I can't seem to download Quicktime for my machine at home? I click on the download button and my computer keeps asking me if I want to open the damned thing up as a Word file.

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[sraun]

Can you right-click THERE and select "Save As"? And get it to save a .EXE file?

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I can, but it doesn't seem to do any good. If I save it, then click on it later, it drags me to some Microsoft diagnositic page in the Internet.

Hmm, one thing I have seen is that the file is tagged exe.php Does that mean anything in particular?

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[sraun]

Ouch!

I hate those download links! They aren't serving up the link - they're serving a pointer to an active page that serves the link. I.e., there's this (IMAO, totally unnecessary, and actively obnoxious) extra level of redirection in their download process.

Hmm, I wonder ...

Mrfl, mrfl - they've done away with the ftp site they used to have, and the only Windows Installer I could find is one of those nifty little 'download me, and then I'll find out what you need' things.

I believe something is screwed up with the .PHP association on your system - the handler should be Internet Explorer, and has apparently been set to Word. If you want to play with File Associations, I could give you some hints on what to look for.

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[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I'll have a looksee when I get home this evening. Thanks for all your help so far!